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Jeninga, Roos (2024)

Ibidis interea tu quoque nomen habe: A metapoetic reading of the figure of Ibis in Ovid's Ibis

Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)

Ovid's curse poem 'Ibis' is a very elusive and obscure poem, which might explain why it has long remained in the shadow of Ovid's other exile poetry. One of the great questions of scholarship on the Ibis is who the eponymous enemy is whom Ovid curses in the poem: who is Ibis? This thesis proposes a metapoetic interpretation of the figure of Ibis, thereby interpreting Ovid's enemy as a representation of the poet's pre-exile poetry. This is done by looking at intertextuality between the Ibis and Ovid's earlier poetry, specifically the Tristia and the Metamorphoses.

Ovid

Ibis

curse poetry

exile poetry

intertextuality

Author

Jeninga, Roos

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Classics

Supervisors

Wessels, A.B.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en